Joel Bush co-founded Amplifier.com to help web companies monetize and expand their brands. Clients include The Onion and Despair Inc. , and Bush and company go about their business with a unselfed zest that might seem odd to many in today's "brand-yourself-24/7" web world. But it's the nature of their business and part of what makes them so effective. I caught up with Joel at SXSW and we spoke about his business, the great even that is SXSWi , and other things on his always active and observant mind. LISTEN (17:49) Transcript Scott... [More]

This week on developerworks, plus an interview with U.S. Air Force Captain Nathan Broshear who talks about how the USAF is using social media in crisis/relief situations and for communicating soldiers' stories to the media.
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Patrick Meier of Ushahidi.com talks about their free and open source solution, first created for mapping incidents of violence during the 2007 Kenyan elections and now being used in Haiti and Chile to assist with rescue and relief efforts.
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